1) an apocryphal character cited for the purpose of an argument of the form "Even this staunch republican agrees that all republicans rape babies. sometimes the argument takes the form of a hard news piece.

2) one of the popular forms taken by a "moby", a variety of troll which adopts the cultural identity of the opposing team for the purposes of either defamation by implication or "concern trolling".

genuine_republican says:
"i have enumerated misgivings about the policies of our standing president which are as follows..."

Staunch Republican 1776 says:
"YEA I HEAR YA BROTHER! THIS DIRTY N***ER MARXIST SHOULD BE ASSASINATED AN JEWS CONTROL THE CURRENCY."

faux-moderate (the authentic id of "staunch_republican1776") says:
"i have to say, genuine, there are problems with your criticisms which i haven't the time to point out here, but i wonder if you ever ask yourself why so many of your ideas so readily excite the passions of racist skinhead types like 'staunch_republican1776'?"